US EditionParis To Name Avenue After Russia's Alexei Navalny
- Paris is naming part of an avenue after Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison colony in murky circumstances, according to the city council.
- The Avenue de Pologne will have one side named 'Alexei Navalny' following a vote by city hall.
- The city seeks to honor 'the resistance he embodied against the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin,' according to a city statement.
- Navalny's death occurred on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence for leading an 'extremist' organization.
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A Parisian avenue will be named after Alexei Navalny, a Russian opponent who died in 2024. It will be located in the 16th arrondissement, near the Russian embassy, announced the city hall of Paris.
Parts of Avenue de Pologne in Paris's 16th arrondissement will be renamed after the late Russian regime critic Alexei Navalny, city hall announced.
Paris to name avenue after Russia's Alexei Navalny
Paris is naming part of an avenue after Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison colony in murky circumstances, the city council has said.The Avenue de Pologne in the wealthy 16th district of the capital will have one side -- with odd house numbers -- named "Al...
The Paris Council has derogated from the rule which provides for a five-year period between the death of a person and the attribution of his name to a public space, because of the "importance of the commitments" of the Russian opponent.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Putin's most famous opponent of the Kremlin on 16 February 2024, the Paris Council voted that part of Poland's avenue in the 16th arrondissement should bear his name.
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